sb. Also 5 ellyser, 6 ely-, elizour, -zar, -zor, 6–8 eslisor, 6 eslior. [a. OF. elisour, f. elis- stem of elire to choose.] One who elects.

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  † 1.  = ELECTOR 1–3. Obs.

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14[?].  Caxton, trans. Higden (Rolls), VII. 524 [see ELITE sb.1].

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1529.  Rastell, Pastyme, Hist. Rom. (1811), 33. Made emperour … by the vii. elyzours of Almayne. Ibid., Fr. Hist., 71. The markes Brandonburgh one of the elizours of the emperour.

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  2.  Law. One of two persons appointed in certain cases to select a jury.

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1628.  Coke, On Litt., 158 a. The Court shall appoint certaine Elisors or Esliors.

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1768.  Blackstone, Comm., III. 355.

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1863.  H. Cox, Instit., II. iii. 352. Where the sheriff is not an indifferent person … the precept may be directed … to two elisors, or electors, who shall indifferently name the jury.

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